Roller-bearing with looped cage.



G. S. LOGKWOOD. ROLLER BEARING WITH LOOPED- GAGE. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1a, 1910.

4 3 Patented Jute 20, 191] ATE ' CHARLES S.

LOCKXVGOD, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO HYAT'I ROLLER BEARING COMPANY, or HARRISON, NEW JERSEY, a oonroserron or NEW JERSEY.

ROLLER-BEARING WITH LOGPED CAGE.

995,421. Specification of Letters Patent Fatcnted June 2%,

Application filed June 18, 1910.

To all whom it may concern."

Be it lrnown that 1, CHARLES S. Loom woon, a citizen of the United States, residing at 289 Market street,illewarlt,county Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improve ments in Rollcr- Bearings with Looped Cages, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

This invention is designed to cheapen the manufacture of a cage for guiding a series of inclined rolls within a roller bearing.

This improved cage consists oi a series of inclined loops integrally connected at their open ends, each loop being adapted to receive and guide a roll within the roller hearing. The loops may be formed to retain' -the rolls upon the hub before the casing is applied thereto, thus facilitating the handling of those parts until the bearing is en tirely completed.

The invention will be understood by reference to the annexed drawing, in whicl1' Figure l is a longitudinal section, where hatched of a bearing having a double conical hub and two sets of tapering rolls fitted thereto and provided with the improved cage; Fig. 2 is an end view of the hub, the rolls, and the cage with the lower half of the cage in section on line 22 in Fig. 3; Fig. 3 is a. plan of the cage for the bearing of Fig. 1 with the rolls shown in one-half of the cage; Fig. 4 is a diagram showing the relation of the loops to one another as it formed of a continuous strip; Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of a bearing having one set of bearing-rolls; and Fig. 6 shows two series ofdoops united without an intermediate plate. I

A. designates the hub of the bearing shownwith inclined bearing-seats a united at their bases, and two sets of inclined rolls 7), b, titted to such bearing-seats. Bearing-seats c and c are shown in casing adapted to embrace the outer sides of the rolls. The hub in Fig. 1 has a small shoulder a at the smaller end of the rolls.

llhe chief element of the cage. is series of inclined loops (:5 formed from a circular ring of sheet-metal bent by successive stainpings into the shape shown in. Fig. 3, each loop having 6 extended whole of the roll, a front piece 6, and the sides 6 Serial No. 7,548.

connected at their inner ends by a foot I".

slope toward a common center. in Figs. '1. :se feet f. -ujiich are integral with the it 1., plate 9 ct circular form: being secured thereto by rivets 72 extended through the feet and the plate. The plate is a tlat ring adapted to rotate about the hub A at the middle oil. its length. and the loops project obliquely from the plate to embrace the op posite sides of the rolls Z), I). To retain the rolls upon the hub before the casing is applied, the side-bars e of each loop are curved to fit the sides of the roll, as shown where the side-bars are sectioned in the lower part of Fig. 2. The side-bars of the loops are made loiig enougli'to embrace the entire sides of tlie rolls, and are sloped at the same Where the side-bars c are concaved so as to fit the rolls, as shown in Fig. 2, the rolls must be inserted from the open end of the loop (Z, and the looped portion of the cage can then be attached to a flat ring as 7, or to a similar looped portion projected in the opposite direction, as shown in Fig. 6. The rolls and then form a connected or self-contained structure which can be handled independently of the hub and easing. When applying the rolls to the hub with the looped portion of the cage, the rolls which are tapering, can be pushed toward the wider end of the loop to pass them simultaneously over the shoulder a.

Vlhere only a single set of rolls is used, the ring 9 connected with the looped portion or the can dished, as shown at 5 in F 1g. 5, fitted quite near to the inner" ends of the rolls. The loops in such case have the feet transverse to the sides of the loops; but with the loops shown in Figs. 1 and S, the f are set oblique to the sides of the loops in order to join the in the center oi the casing.

, 4 if T -The ccnstrectien 0i 2 connected to :1 counnen tie" of rolls shows the adjacent ends of the rolls tapered'to roll in contact with one another, th'usrhol'ding tli'e' rolls from riding upward on the hub, which is their natural tendency under lateral pressure of the casing, but with the construction of Fig. 5, with a single set of rolls, a collar a is provided uponthe larger end of the hub against which the ,larger ends of the rolls rotate,

In Fig. 6, two series of loops adapted to guide two adjacent sets of rolls are shown with the feet united directly to one another without any intermediate ring g, and such of rolls are employed, as in Fig. 1,'the cage may be constructed as in Fig. 6, without any ring attached to the feet f, but where only a single set of rolls is used, as in Fig. 5, the a ring g is necessary to hold the loops upon,

the rolls.

Having thus set forth the nature of the invention whatis claimed herein is:

1. In a roller bearing, the combination, with inclined bearing-seats and a series of inclined tapering rolls converging toward a common center, of a sheet-metal cage comprising a series of integrally connected loops with sides inclined toward a common center and extended the entirelength of therolls.

2. In a roller bearing, the combination, with a hub and casing having inclined bearing-seats and a series of inclined tapering rolls converging toward a, common center,

of a sheet-metal cage comprising .a series of integrally connected loops with sides inclined toward a common center and extended the entire length of the rolls and such sides curved to fit the sides ofthe rolls and operating to hold them in the cage as a self contained structure.

3. A self-containedsetof rolls and cage for a roller bearing, comprising a series of \tapering rolls, a series of integrally connected loops having side-bars extended the entire length of the rolls 1 and such/sides curved to fitcth'e sidesof'tlfe rolls, and a tie plate orri'ng secured to the feet of the loops, 7

and covering the open ends of the loops to retain the rolls therein.

4.- A roller-bearing having a double conical hub, sets of tapering rolls fitted to the bearing-seats upon the opposite ends of the hub, ,/a tie-plate intermediate the adjacent ends. of the rolls, and a series of loops pro-- iect'ed fromeach. side of such plate and emretain them upon the hub and guide them within the casing.

In testimonywhereofl have hereuntoset my hand in th epresence of two subscribing witnesses.

'- CHARLES S. LOCKWOOD.

Witnesses:

IvY W. As an, WILLIAMD. BRO N.

bracing the op gosite curved sides of the rolls 'and adapted t 

